John Earls is one of the UK’s leading researchers of Burnout in the workplace. He has an MSc in Psychology and Mindfulness and is currently researching how to treat workplace burnout as part of his PhD. Having experienced burnout himself after years at the top of the legal profession as a lawyer, John has dedicated the rest of his career to solving the mystery of the burnout syndrome so other professionals are able to perform at the highest levels without ‘crashing out’, which significantly impacts every aspect of a person’s life. As part of his current PhD, John is investigating how to reduce the symptoms of workplace burnout by synthesising the successful components of mindfulness, coaching and exercise into a novel workplace intervention.

John works at executive and leadership levels with a wide variety of corporate clients in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He facilitates burnout interventions, resilience programmes, and burnout executive coaching. John’s psychological background enables him to blend human behavioural change with systems and process change ensuring targeted and impactful business results are achieved.  

John’s approach is to support leaders to re-frame perceived problems and generate agreed simple, pragmatic and highly impactful solutions that deliver personal and business results. He places great emphasis on enabling individuals and teams to prevent burnout and be resilient as well as tracking and measuring change, from a behavioural and commercial perspective. John is known for ‘seeing the wood from the trees’ and his honest, challenging, and supportive style make him an excellent critical friend, sounding board and impactful coach.